Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. John Muir More Quotes by John Muir More Quotes From John Muir The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness. John Muir wilderness impressive characteristics At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed. John Muir light religious blessed A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep. John Muir want sheep men Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord. John Muir humanity white lying Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness. John Muir wilderness strange made Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away. John Muir saplings running tree Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. John Muir flower dark sky Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite. John Muir ice light lying It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive. John Muir alive dream adventure Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco. John Muir destiny sweet travel The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. John Muir god men science Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed. John Muir running fun life There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect. John Muir dog perfect profound I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? John Muir scenery miles tree Our lives are rounded with a sleep. John Muir our-lives sleep We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always John Muir cells views memories Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay. John Muir toil gold lying Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory. John Muir latin english-grammar memories Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money - or so little, they are no longer good for themselves. John Muir stress dust hot The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. John Muir garden lakes lying
